Football

DeRon Brown and James Oleinik Named d3football.com All-American

Jan 01, 2009

Jan. 1, 2009

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Junior DeRon Brown capped a
historic season in the backfield by being tabbed as MIT's first
football All-American in 11 years. Brown was named d3football.com
Second Team All-American after finishing the 2008 campaign as the
nation's second-leading rusher.

Brown shattered the single-season Institute record for rushing
yards in a season with 1,816 yards in addition to a school-record
22 touchdowns. He averaged 6.6 yards per carry en route to
establishing a new career rushing record at MIT with 2,778 yards.

During the season, Brown was a recipient of the Boston Globe
Gold Helmet Award while he also earned New England Football
Conference (NEFC) and Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC)
Player of the Week accolades.

He authored the second and third best single-game rushing
performances in team history, including a career-high 251 yards on
27 carries against Mass Maritime. Brown topped 200 yards versus
three teams while his season low was 127 yards in a loss at UMass
Dartmouth. He scored at least two touchdowns in each of the first
eight games of the season and tied a school record with four TD's
in back-to-back weeks against Western New England and at Salve
Regina.

Brown earned a bevy of postseason awards including New England
Football Writers All-New England and NEFC Boyd Division Offensive
Player of the Year.

In addition to Brown, senior offensive lineman James Oleinik was
named All-American Honorable Mention.

Brown and Oleinik are MIT's first All-Americans since 1997,
when Duane Stevens and Brad Gray were each picked to the
Hewlett-Packard NCAA Division III All-American Team.